Macbeth

 Act I

Scene I
· Three Witches for the opening scene
· bloody battle & character Macbeth

· “Fair is foul, and foul is fair” Paradox
 
Scene II
· Duncan, King of Scotland
· King of Norway and the previous Thane of Cawdor of Scotland
· A wounded Captain reports about the battle and Macbeth’s bravery
· bloody scene of how Macbeth chops off Macdonwald's head and hangs on the battle field
· Duncan announces that they will execute the traitor (Thane of Cawdor) and give title to Macbeth

Scene III
· Witches are evil & dark
·“By each at once her choppy finger laying upon her skinny lips. You should be women, and yet that your beards forbid me to interpret....”
· The witches tell Macbeth that he is going to be offered the title of Thane of Cawdor and eventually become king
· Banquo tells Macbeth: you shouldn't be afraid of you future; and he asks the witches for his future
· Witch: “Lesser than Macbeth, and greater. Not so happy, yet much happier.” (Foreshadows); his child will be king. Then the witches refuse to say anything anymore and vanish
· After Ross  announces that Macbeth is the Thane of Cawdor
· “...murder yet is but fantastical”

Scene IV
· The traitor—Thane of Cawdor has been executed
· Malcolm, Duncan's elder son-The Prince of Cumberland is on line to be the next King
· Macbeth seems him as another threat and something he needs to “overlap” to become King

Scene V
· Lady Macbeth reads a letter from Macbeth
· she is going to “poison” Macbeth with her words in his ears
· “The raven himself is hoarse” symbol and foreshadow 

·Voice of raven foreshadows the evil thing and death
·“unsex me” Lady Macbeth wants to be a man mentally and physically 

· When Macbeth came back, the first thing Lady Macbeth says to him is let's kill the King tonight

Scene VI
· King, Banquo
· arrive at Macbeth’s castle

·Lady Macbeth greets them in a“fake” way

·her plan of murdering the King is obvious

Scene VII
· Macbeth is hesitate to follow Lady Macbeth's plan to kill the King

· the assassination is going to take place in their castle
· People honors Macbeth of his success; he doesn't want to give it away
· Lady Macbeth accuses his cowardice
· Macbeth asks “If we should fail?”
· Their plan is to make Duncan and his guards drunk then make his guards felt guilty of Duncan’s death

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Act II

Scene I
· Fleance is the son of Banquo
· They talk about the witches and questioning their prophecies
· Macbeth“Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee! I have thee not, and yet I see thee still...” 
· He made the decision to kill Duncan

Scene II
· Lady Macbeth drugged the chamberlains of the King
· Lady Macbeth was trying to kill Duncan with dagger, but the way he sleeps look like her father
· Macbeth murdered the King and he refused to go back to put the dagger next to the guards
· Lady Macbeth goes back and put the bloody dagger next to the Chamberlains
· “What hands are here? Ha! They pluck out mine eyes! Will al great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?”—water can wash the blood on his hands, but they can't clean the blood in his mind/heart.
· he feels guilty

Scene III
· Lennox gives a description the “unusual night”
· Macduff finds that the King has been murdered and he goes out to tell everyone
· Lennox said that those guards had killed King because their hands and faces were full with blood and the dagger was also in their hands too
· Macbeth says that he killed the guards out of his respect
· Malcolm and Donalbain (Duncan’s son) decided to go separate ways to keep themselves safer

·Malcolm goes to England

·Donalbain goes to Ireland
 Scene IV
· Ross and an Old Man are discussing the strange event
· unusual that King the got killed and his sons fled instead of taking over the crown
· Macduff announces that Macbeth is ready to be officially crowned
· Duncan's body has been carried to Colmekill

· Colmekill is the modern island of Iona
· “God’s benison goes with you, and with those that would make good of bad, and friends of foes!” 

Practice Test 1

1. E
2. A
3. E
4. C
5. A
6. A
7. D
8. D
9. D
10. B
11. A
12. E
13. E
14. D
15. D
16. C
17. A
18. E
19. D
20. C
21. B
22. C
23. B
24. B
25. C
26. C
27. A
28. C
29. B
30. C
31. D
32. D
33. D
34. D
35. C
36. D
37. E
38. C
39. D
40. D
41. B
42. C
43. A
44. C
45. C
46. E
47. B
48. E
49. A
50. D
51. B
52. C
53. C
54. E

Macbeth notes

-Guy wants to become king, they kill many ppl & ghost come back to haunt them... in the end Macbeth and his wife defeated
-distinguished factor of heros we know is they dnt want to be heroes
-evolution of hero is they became  antihero
-Claudius is an evil guy in king robes
-king supposed to be good because he's supposed to be the closest thing to God
-tone sinister
-Macbeth is evil play
-everything is steaming & dirty & bloody
-1606 play written
-James I fascinated by witchcraft
- banquo & fleance --- inherited thrown through them
-real rein 1040 to 1057 Macbeth
-ducen murder well known
-ruled for 17 yrs
-Scotland & England on good terms
-Shakespeare's Macbeth felt bad for killing king
-Macbeth is an animal
-"fair is fowl & fowl is fair" paradox
-witches were compared to darkness & death
-society telling us " desperate to be good so we'll show you bad"
-why witchcraft was needed
-2 yrs before Macbeth written witchcraft became a capital crime
-banquo realized ability of witchcraft
-witches could do many things
-bodies of unbaptized babies were a prize to witches
-supernatural villian
-end -- satisfying seeing Macbeth get bad misfortunes
-witches not dishonest
-they dnt deceive Macbeth but they dnt stop him from deceiving himself
-temptation

Morning Topic

• what makes a program dominant
• first thing he did was tell his players to take off his shoes and socks
• wanted to teach them how to put on their socks
• put socks wrong way you get blisters which leads to playing wrong
• every little edge he could find to help them succeed was what he did
• why socks & why haircuts? 
• value system: goal is more important than anyone's identity

1. starting tonight-- start getting more than 6 hrs of sleep at night / 7-9 hrs of sleep 
2. eat right-- 3 balanced meals a day / stay away from sugary drinks / lean protein & avocado & apple carbohydrates / 3 hours apart 
3. exercise-- atleast 30 minutes of it

• practice & work

AP Resources

1. https://benchprep.com/blog/category/high-school/ap-literature-composition/
2. http://www.webenglishteacher.com/ap.html
3. http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/courses/teachers_corner/2124.html
4. http://www.appracticeexams.com/ap-english-literature
5. http://www.kn.att.com/wired/fil/pages/listaplitma.html

Brave New World-- 11 to 18

Chapter 11
-Bernard stabs the director in the back
-Bernard was the guardian of a Savage (John)
-people revered him
-talks of someone giving Bernard alcohol in his embryo development were silent
-Bernard's job is to look out for the John
-he take notes on John thoughts as if he were an experiment
-Bernard brags to Helmholtz about the attention he is getting from being the guardian John
-Helmholtz does not share the enthusiasm that Bernard shares for this feat so Bernard gets upset and decides to leave him
-Lenina might be developing feelings for John
-She liked Bernard because he was different and initially denied her, but eventually (with the help of soma) slept with her
-John refuses to sleep with Lenina because that is childish
-Since Lenina helped "discover" John, she gets to run errands with John when Bernard is busy
-Lenina and John are together in this scene
-The machine is designed to give you sensations and hear noises that are provocative
-During the process, you watch a movie called Three Weeks in a Helicopter
-a dark man and a woman are together
-the dark man develops feelings for her and the woman declines those feelings
-the dark man stalks her and kidnaps her on a helicopter for three weeks
-Three Alphas manage to rescue her and in gratitude she becomes their woman in a polygamy relationship
-John doesn't like the film
-Lenina hopes that her & John might sleep together
-instead John steps into a different cab and says "Good night" 


Chapter 12
-Bernard sets up an extravagant party to host the savage (John) and show him off
-Arch Community-Songster of Canterbury, a celebrity, is invited to the party
-After the day with Lenina John does not want to see anyone 
-Bernard's shouting outside John's room
-he refuses to leave his room
-John's reading Romeo & Juliet
-Bernard begs him to come out because this is his opportunity to shine in the community
-Everyone uses sex & drug to escape everything
-Everyone, including the songster, gets angry because they were denied to see John
-People began to ridicule Bernard
-“I knew it the whole time that someone accidentally slipped alcohol in his embryo-state.” 
-People left the party 
-Bernard’s fame as well as his ego got reduced to below average.
-Bernard goes to Helmholtz to reconcile because of his bad behavior 
-Helmholtz is more than happy to reconcile


Chapter 13
-Lenina is a bit down because she has obviously developed feelings for John who denies her. --Henry asks Lenina out but she declines 
-shes upset about something 
-doesn't want to go out with anyone
-Lenina asks her friend Fanny for aid
-Fanny can't believe Lenina couldn't get John 
-Fanny basically says to take charge 
-Lenina visits John
-John told Lenina that he loved her
-Lenina starts stripping 
-John yells at her and calls her a "strumpet" which is basically a prostitute
-He pushes her and yells to leave
-She grabs some of her clothes and runs in the restroom to redress
-While she is changing, John gets a call from the hospital
-his mother is ill
-Linda is near to death


Chapter 14
-Park Lane Hospital
-John flies to the hospital and weeps by his mother's bed 
-asks if there's anything to save her "No''
-"Hug me till you drug me honey."
-She momentarily wakes up and says "Pope'' at the sight of her son 
-John is obviously mad because she is so "high" she can barely recognize him 
-Some kids (twins) enter the room to see her
-they talk about her appearance
-John yells at them to leave
-A nurse comes in and says the kids are being conditioned to accept death. 
-She threatens to kick out John but John eventually leaves
-Linda dies in this chapter 


Chapter 15

-John is leaving the hospitol

-the nurse has to return to give the kids soma so that John doesn't interfere with conditioning

-John is outraged that kids are taking drugs

-all 162 Delta came for "soma distribution"

-John repeats "O. Brave New World.. O, Brave New World.."

-he says that soma is poison

-John grabs the drugs and "frees" everyone by dumping the drugs out the window

-Bernard and Helmholtz are called for assistance

-the police come and calm down the crowd with drugs

-John, Helmholtz and Bernard are arrested

Chapter 16

-someone asks John "So you don't like much civilization"

-John says "yes"

-Bernard is becoming selfish

-John quotes from Shakespeare multiple times
-the person tells him the old things have been burned 
-John dislikes new things and expresses that
-everyone is okay with how the new world is
-soma causes liberty
-they have to sacrifice a lot because of what they chose
-they can't replace a persons passion for something
-John doesn't like Delta
-they say that Delta do so much for them
-civil war broke out and thousands of men lost their lives
-world controller took over the island
-Controller asks to take Bernard out
-Iceland is where ppl have a self concious
-he choice to be a world director instead of going to Iceland
-knowledge was highest good
-truth was supreme valley
-mass productions triggers changes
-they emphasis the truth
-ppl are interested in beauty and health
-Controller asks Helmhortz where he wants to go
-he said somewhere with bad weather "winds & storms"
-Falkland Island

Chapter 17

-the controller and John are alone

-Controller tells John they're giving up beauty/truth & religion

-John cant respond to that

-Controller shows John a copy of all his different books

-people don't read them, it disappeared like God

-no one needs or wants God in Brave New Wrorld

-no misery or fear of death in old age

-Controller believes there's a God but "he modifies himself as an absence" now

-they blame civilization

-people never like to be alone

-self denial (industrial civilization = no self denial)

-no need for anyone to be heroic

-soma's always available to forget the unhappy things

-John says "Life is about Suffer; we should be proud of life and suffer"

-John claims all rights to be unhappy: "sin, God, poetry, real danger, freedom.."

-the Controller adds: "pain, cancer, sickness, old.."

Chapter 18

-Helmholtz & Bernard find John and he looks ill

-Bernard feels sorry for what he did the other day

-Controller doesn't let John go with Bernard

-John wants to be alone

-Leaves away from London

-John begins to pray to God that night asking for forgiveness

-he climbs up to a light house

-John is living on his own in a lighthouse

-Reporters want to talk to John

-they sneak a few shots of John hitting himself

-they want him to take soma

-Fans come over and even Lenina comes over and someone sings "orgy porgy" starts

-John wakes up the next morning realzing what he has done

-He kills himself by jumping off light house

March Lit Analysis Choice

For my March Literary Analysis, I've been reading Lord of the Flies. I plan to have finished reading the novel within a few days and begin answering the questions by this week.

Socratic Seminar Notes 3/19

°Themes.. consumerism- everyone needs to have new things.
°Ex clothes get thrown away. °Foundation of it. Things need to be renewed.

°Characters named after historical figures...

°Theme... unity - cant be ideal society without unity. Trying to get rid of ppl tht are different.

°Values.. marriage, mother, father & others have been twisted

°Optimistic in beginning of book. Was trying to prove a point & for shock value to get ppl to read the book.

°Symbols... Ford (worshipping industrialism/assembly line instead of God)

°Froid -- ego of humanity

°Could relate to characters

°Conditioned to be happy.. the characters
°Conditioned to feel special

°Bernard becomes corrupt bcuz all eyes are on John
°Ex. John gets in fight & Bernard doesn't help

°John wants to leave but they dnt let him

°Technology used in book demonized but in reality technology advances are used.

°Gender Rules.... diff between mother & father terms-
°Equality in cast but sexual stand point.. men more dominant & show off number of women they slept with.
°A lot of equality with things they do but no higher female role
°Equality but no authority
°Seems like Alpha Plus were all males

°Soma in today's society are drugs
°Nobody is an individual so everyone has same soma

°women are moms bcuz they take care of embryos
°Men going away as women work in factories like WWI

°"Brave new world" a quote from Tempast

°Significance of title- from John's perspective he's seeing a new world compared to his

°changing p.o.v.s from characters

°ch 2 changes perspectives of characters with every other line

°Difference of post modernism & modernism is time period in this sense & also post modernism needs inconsistency

°Chronology is something making sense in time.
°Postmodernism is used to...

Journal-- March 11

Describe and explain the father/son reunion in Ch 10 of Brave New World.

When John enters the room, the first thing he does is go to the Director. He then falls to his knees and repeats the phrase "My Father." The Director didn't know how to react to having a son thus entering shock. He had just "united" with Linda when he found out John existed. Being a boy who was denied a relationship with his father, John did his part when uniting with the Director. He was happy to have finally meet the person his mother talked about. Even though the Director didn't react like the normal father would when meeting his son for the first time. Considering father mean something else, the Director became embarrassed as he heard the words and crowds laughter.  It was an awkward situation for everyone. On one side you have two people that were living under different rules & then you have the director. A person who has changed the meaning of every word. In the Director's world, people don't have babies. The words mother and father have weird meaning. People there aren't supposed to get attached to others. John has lived a life under his mother's wings. She has been his mother --loved him, cared for him. It's understandable why the Director felt embarrassed and ran. He was John's father. He did the abnormal and had a child with Linda. His views on life will restrict a relationship between John and him. If he gets attached it will go against everything he worked for.

Brave New World-- 10

-its 2:27 

-everyone is busy working in the lab

-they are separating the embryos

-"the newly-unbottled babes uttered their first yell of horror and amazement"

-its feeding time for 800 babies

-babies are drinking" pasteurized external secretion"

-little boys and girls are listening to hypnopædic lessons in hygiene and sociability, in classconsciousness and the toddler's love-life

-that room contains more high-caste workers than any other in the Centre

-they talk about making as many as they like

-Bernard enters the room

-when he first speaks he's too loud so he softens his tone

-the Director asked Mr Marx (Bernard) to meet him there

-"Yes-s," repeated the Director, lingering, a serpent, on the "s." Then, 

suddenly raising his voice, "Ladies and gentlemen," he trumpeted, "ladies and gentlemen."

-he silenced the room

-the director says Bernard has betrayed them 

-Bernard is an Alpha-Plus

-the Director announces he will become an ex-colleague

-“By his heretical views on sport and soma, by the scandalous unorthodoxy of his sex-life, by his refusal to obey the teachings of Our Ford and behave out of office hours, 'even as a little infant,”

-the Director makes the sign of the T

-he proposes to dismiss Bernard to Iceland

-he asks Bernard to show areason as to why he shoudn’t execute the judgement passed on him

-Bernard says he does

-Linda is the reason

-“There was a gasp, a murmur of astonishment and horror; a young girl screamed; standing on a chair to get a better view someone upset two test-tubes full of spermatozoa. Bloated, sagging, and among those firm youthful bodies, those undistorted faces, a strange and terrifying monster of middle-agedness, ”

-she enters the room smiling

-Linda recognized the Director

-she started to call him Tomakin

-Linda asked the Director if she remembered her

-the Director is in shock

-Linda then throws her arms around him

-the crowd starts to laugh

-"You made me have a baby," she screamed above the uproar. There was a sudden and appalling hush; eyes floated uncomfortably, not knowing where to look.”

-the crowd in now silent

-she said she was the baby’s mother

-Linda is now ashamed and begins to cry

-she calls John in

-John fell in front of the director and began to call him father

-“The word (for "father" was not so much obscene as–with its connotation of something at one remove from the loathsomeness and moral obliquity of child--bearing–merely gross, a scatological rather than a pornographic impropriety);”

-laughter broke from the crowd

-the Director was humiliated

-he put his hands over his ears and ran out